Ludivine Sagnier (born 3 July 1979)
is a French actress and model, who has worked in 33 movies since 1989. She
was nominated for two César Awards for Best Supporting Actress in Swimming
Pool (2003) and Un secret (2007).

Sagnier was born in La Celle-Saint-Cloud, in the département of Yvelines;
her mother is a retired secretary and her father is a professor of English
at a Paris University. She started taking acting classes at a young age
and had her film debut at age 10 in I Want to Go Home and Les maris, les
femmes, les amants (both released in 1989).

In 2001, she was named one of the Shooting Stars by European Film
Promotion. She was nominated for the César Award for Most Promising
Actress in 8 Women (2002). Sagnier performed in two films in competition
at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival, La Petite Lili and Swimming Pool, both
released in the same year. Also in 2003, she won the Prix Romy Schneider.
Sagnier has appeared completely nude in extended scenes in several films,
including Water Drops on Burning Rocks, Bon plan (both released in 2000),
and La Petite Lili. In the Francois Ozon's English film Swimming Pool,
Sagnier worked topless for more than half of her appearances. Addressing
this issue, Sagnier told Playboy: "I'm much more confident in front of a
camera, hidden by a character, enhanced by makeup, so I can go much
further than I can in real life. Sexual acting is painful, because even
though you're pretending, you have the skin of the person in front of you,
and it's not the skin you wish you had. After that, you run into the
shower to get rid of everything". She also starred in P. J. Hogan's 2003
adaptation of Peter Pan, as Tinkerbell.
In 2005, she recorded a series of introductions for Sky Movies. These
included intros to several films.
On 25 March 2005 she gave birth to a daughter named Bonnie. The father is
actor Nicolas Duvauchelle.

Ludivine Sagnier - Personal Quotes

"I don't act to be popular, or see my face on the cover of magazines
every time I go out to get coffee. I don't want to think about me
all the time, and what I look like."

" I'd say people recognize me but having children recognize me is
the best. It is a very special thing. Suddenly you feel like you
have the power to make the children's dreams come true and it's
better than anything else." on being recognized as Tinkerbell.

"I don't need much money to live the way I live in Paris. I'm only
23 and I don't have great material needs, but I do have big artistic
ambitions..."

"The French have their double standards. For example, I don't think
anyone in France could make a movie like Larry Clark's Bully,
because he combines sex and violence and humor. And, recently, there
was this photo of Christina Aguilera on the magazine covers, where
she was naked from the back, wearing only a G-string. The French
were shocked ... and called her bad names. It was a scandal for two
weeks."

"It's impossible to explain to people who you are in a five-minute
interview on TV."

"Hollywood is a wonderful machine for making big movies. In France,
we make smaller and more personal films, but if things keep changing
this will disappear. The industry in Italy is practically gone.
Cinecitta now is used mostly by filmmakers from others places, like
Martin Scorsese."

[On performing naked on-camera] "I'm much more confident in front of
a camera, hidden by a character, enhanced by makeup, so I can go
much further than I can in real life. Being naked is quite a natural
thing, but it's more the sexual situations. Sexual acting is
painful, because even though you're pretending, you have the skin of
the person in front of you, and it's not the skin you wish you had.
After that you run into the shower to get rid of everything. I felt
really dirty after I filmed all of this. It is difficult, but even
if you're self-conscious in real life, when you're hidden behind a
character you can bare much more."

"I don't do nudity for fame or to become popular, because that only
lasts so long. Look at Brigitte Bardot...she's become a fascist and
hates everyone."

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